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%PRIORITY DOMINANT EXCLUSIVE VALUE IDEAL PRINCIPLE 990206
Our conflicts are often rooted in unresolved tensions
between complementary values, ideals and principles. We
like to simplify things by choosing some one or very few
values, ideals, and/or principles as being worthy of
ultimate concern, loyalty and support. There is no one
value, ideal or principle which is worthy of such worship.
It is idolatrous to elevate anything which can be
contained or delivered in words to the status of ultimate
concern and worship.
Healthy living is entails constantly balancing
complementary ideals, values and principles --- with no
one or select few dominating others in exclusive ways.
Unhealthy living often entails people adopting some
one or few ideals, values and/or principles --- as their
favored god(s) worthy of ultimate concern, devotion and
service --- to the exclusion of other complementary
ideals, values and/or principles. Exclusivity usually
leads to alienation and disintegration.
There are many signs which can tell us that
exclusivity it at work in generating alienation and
disintegration:
1. Indifference toward complementary values,
ideals, and principles.
2. Indifference toward the suffering of weak and
vulnerable people.
3. Preoccupation with issues of control, power,
superiority, perfection and imperfections.
4. Being tempted and/or yielding to the temptation
to be misleading, deceptive and dishonest --- as
means toward the accomplishment of highly valued goals.
5. Focusing attention in increasingly narrower and
narrower ways---upon fewer and fewer people, issues,
values, ideals, concerns, and/or principles.
6. Increasingly greater and greater attention being
focused upon technologies, tools, and manipulative skills.
7. Increasingly greater and greater attention being
focused upon laws, orders, commandments, disciplines,
rules, regulations, prohibitions, prescriptions, and
proscriptions --- to the exclusion of focusing attention
upon the importance of gentleness, meekness, grace, love,
patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility, and mercy.
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